As US national leadership takes many wrong turns, leaders from US states and cities can join with peers in Germany and Europe to keep advancing, not retreating, on economic transformation, ameliorating climate change, and building more cohesive societies. In Halle, Germany with my US Mayors!

Catch this good analysis in @crainschicago.bsky.social by on depth & breadth of the damage-doing by the current Administration to the people and the economies states like Illinois (that just happen to be on the other side of an unfortunate partisan divide). www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/tru...

Get our Heartlands Transformation Substack! Here colleague @tamaraehs.bsky.social illustrates how local leaders across democracies push back against authoritarians & preserve freedoms! @aia-nrw.bsky.social @gettysburg2024.bsky.social heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com/p/local-lead...

Timely insights around how Mayors & other local leaders can "authoritarian-proof" democracy - effectively push back against the rising tide of autocracy which can & must be repelled. From @tamaraehs.bsky.social heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com/p/local-lead...

In our latest Substack post from the #Heartlands Transformation Network, Austrian colleague & #democracy defender Tamara Ehs details how local leaders can and are pushing back successfully against authoritarians. heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com/p/local-lead...

It seems like the world is reeling from threats to democracy, sovereignty & rule of law. Yet through the smoke & fire there are signs that decency & democracy are repelling the encroachment. Read my latest heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com/p/through-th...

As bad as the current Administration's civil rights abuses and assaults on democracy are, the achilles heel is the pocketbook issues like rising costs & fewer good-paying jobs, Read how policies like tariffs are hurting working people & Midwest businesses. www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

As young people go, so go our economy & society. Listen to the voices of young US & German Leaders around how to make communities across democracies places where young people thrive, flock to & don't run-away from. @dpzberlin.bsky.social heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com/p/young-lead...

Not only is current US regime's reliance on #tariffs likely illegal, but they damage the very people they are claimed to help, the hard-working men & women who make Michigan & industrial #Midwest #manufacturing go! Read my latest via @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

Our terrific group of US & German Leaders organized by @dpzberlin.bsky.social just out with recommendations to bring hope &opportunity to people and places feeling neglected and ignored. Catch it all on our #Heartlands Transformation Substack. @aia-nrw.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-...

Tariffs sold to "bring back manufacturing" actually choke the industry here. Our manufacturing never left--it just got super high-tech, high value, and produces more product and wealth than ever before. Tariffs destroy jobs & businesses in Midwest. Read why: www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

There’s been much handwringing about “loss” of manufacturing. But in fact US mfg. is highly competitive & wildly productive. Current Prez's tariffs now putting America's manufacturing primacy at risk! Read my latest @brookings.edu, @gettysburg2024.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

Tariffs sold to boost jobs in America's #heartland are having opposite effect. Mfg. jobs shrunk 72,000 between April & December, 2025--including a loss of 2,500 mfg. jobs in my home state of #Michigan. My latest via @brookings.edu @gettysburg2024.bsky.social www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

Minnesota violence & threats to allies are distractions from domestic economic damage being done to #Midwest manufacturing businesses & workers by Administrations tariff regime. Read my latest from @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/not... #tariffs #manufacturing #trade #economy

The current Administration's tariff chaos has hurt, not helped, Midwest manufacturing. Businesses in Michigan and the Midwest are losing customers, and working men and women are losing jobs. Read my latest from @brookings.edu @gettysburgcollege.bsky.social @aia-nrw.bsky.social

Here in Midwest, we were promised a manufacturing renaissance. Actually our manufacturing base was already strong. Current tariff regime is costing us more business, more jobs, making life harder not easier. Read my latest via @brookings.edu www.brookings.edu/articles/not...

On behalf of colleagues in the #Heartlands Transformation Network (HTN) subscribe (for free) to our new Substack platform sharing practical insights around heartlands economic transformation across democracies! Go here to check it out! heartlandstransformationnetwork.substack.com

With so much feeling in the air of things being "torn down", it is inspiring to see communities across democracies, even those facing great economic and social challenges, build up! Read how communitiesbuild on arts, culture & heritage for renewal! online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/b...

It is more than possible for advanced democracies like Canada, UK, Germany, France, & others across Europe & Asia to get way better at building their own high-tech economies --to end dependence on now unreliable US tech and its oligarchs. Read how: www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...

Once vibrant industrial communities across democracies are challenged in making an economic transition Jobs & identity disappear leading to pain, sadness, & anger. All changes when communities build on unique industrial heritage and culture. Read how: online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/b...

Many paths found by communities to overcome massive losses of traditional industry, to new economic prosperity & optimism among residents. No path is more potent than building on the communities unique history, culture and identity. See my new work: online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/b...

See new #Heartlands Transformation Network report: leaders of community revitalization share experience building on arts, culture, history, & identity, to bring new hope, pride, optimism & economic activity to communities. @gettysburg2024.bsky.social online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/b...

Tragically US under the current Administration is walking away from global responsibilities-- like countering #Putin. Europe must lead in defending itself & Ukraine. Must build its own home-grown tech economy! Read how with @andywestwood.bsky.social www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...

A blog on innovation, universities and the regions that really, really need them. Written with my very good colleague @jcaustin.bsky.social and published by IPS (International Politics & Society) in Berlin. www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...

US has a robust University-linked innovation ecosystem-- kicks off game-changing technologies & helps us dominate high-tech. It is time for Canada, UK, and Europe to get good at the same thing. Here's how via @ipgbook.bsky.social . With @andywestwood.bsky.social www.ips-journal.eu/work-and-dig...

University-linked innovation ecosystems kicking out fast-growth, high-tech businesses can be purposefully built. Urgent priority for UK & Europe to grow economies, and end reliance on US big tech! Read how to do it in my new article with @andywestwood.bsky.social www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/arb...

"It is imperative for democracies to build robust, innovation-driven economies & domestic high-tech industries, especially in those regions undergoing structural change that cannot achieve this on their own. " @andywestwood.bsky.social & I detail how to do this: www.ipg-journal.de/rubriken/arb...

Democracies face 2 challenges:creating high-growth, high-tech economy & decrease reliance on US big tech; 2) close geographic economic divides that leave too many behind. Read how we do both, strengthen democracy! With @andywestwood.bsky.social via @internationalpoli.bsky.social lnkd.in/gcRcjnkZ

Far and away the most constructive approach to grow jobs at home and among developing nations is not to retreat from the world, but help build a new "Global Opportunity Order", as I argued recently in @barrons.com Magazine. The US should lead (again!). www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Read my latest in @barrons.com to see how rights and rules respecting countries can work together to maintain an international economic and political order that delivers freedom and opportunity for all! @gettysburg2024.bsky.social @aia-nrw.bsky.social www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

AIA Fellow @jcaustin.bsky.social urges Germany to lead in defending democracy. His new paper (with Emily Adams & Maria Skora) links populism in the US & Europe to economic neglect and calls for inclusive growth. 🔗 Interview: www.aia-nrw.org/en/germany-m... 🔗 Paper: www.aia-nrw.org/en/publicati...

Hungary's Viktor Orban has backers out protesting support for Ukraine. Trying to distract from the fact that he has wrecked Hungary's economy & destroyed health care, education & other basic services. Read my @politico.eu piece on why he should be tossed from office. www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

The new "Opportunity Order" I propose here via @barrons.com can bring much more economic goods and growth to developing nations around the world then China's corrupting & dependency building "development". Read why this is urgent project for freedom-loving countries! www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

To strengthening democracy across the globe we need to understand and act on lessons from recent German & US elections. In both, ethnonationalist movements were driven by those feeling economically insecure, ignored & voiceless in politics. @aia-nrw.bsky.social www.aia-nrw.org/en/publicati...

China's Xi Jinping is asserting it heads a "New World Order". But nations China has in its 'bloc' boasts collective economy dwarfed by leading democracies even without the US. Plus its a club of world’s most noxious, dictatorial regimes. Read in @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

As countries weaponize supply chains it's more important than ever that nations seeking to sustain and even strengthen an open, free, rights and rules respecting international order--what I am calling a Global Opportunity Order-- band together. Read via @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Our convening of leaders across democracies, all focused on place-based economic development policy was a rare chance to share notes on making this work effective across national political & geographic boundaries. Catch it from @gettysburg2024.bsky.social online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/c...

"There is a better path for the world’s democracies than cozying up to China, Russia, and the authoritarian bloc or blithely accepting America’s illiberalism. In comes the Global Opportunity Order." Read my latest in @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Democracies across the globe have been working to close yawning economic inequities to cool support for anti-system populist movements. Read where this important movement is now & where it needs to go. Just out from @gettysburg2024.bsky.social online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/c...

As countries weaponize supply chains & economic dependencies, more important than ever for nations seeking to sustain & even strengthen an open, free, rights & rules respecting international order, build a new @Global Opportunity Order. Read in my piece @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

As I write via @barrons.com @wsj.com there is an alternative to the world China and other mercantilist nations are trying to build. It's called the new needed Global Opportunity Order, Read why so needed and important www.livemint.com/global/the-g...

As trade wars freshly escalate, it is both urgently needed and possible to build a new Global Opportunity Order via which freedom, rules and rights respecting nations can grow and thrive together. Read my new article via @barrons.com www.barrons.com/articles/chi...

Our new @gettysburg2024.bsky.social details the state of play around place-based policy across democracies, with fresh ideas and analysis from key countries and constituencies., including US, Canada, UK, Poland, Germany and beyond. Catch it here: online.visual-paradigm.com/share/book/c...

To diminish the appeal of anti-system, ethnonationalists movements, both US and Germany need leadership that listens and truly understands the frustrations of #heartland voters and meaningfully works to make their lives better. Read via @aia-nrw.bsky.social www.aia-nrw.org/en/publicati...

Lots of giant #NoKings protests in US this weekend President Trump is working to wreck US & basic services, like his anti-democratic friend @viktororban.bsky.social, with likely same result, public seeks to throw those responsible out. Read @politico.eu www.politico.eu/article/us-a...

Long neglected economic inequities & a feeling among many voters of a loss of agency and control of their lives-- explains the growing support of ethnonationalist movements in both Germany & the US. Read our new analysis out from @aia-nrw.bsky.social www.aia-nrw.org/de/publikati...

Germany needs to step up and lead the family of nations committed to openness, freedom & opportunity in strengthening collective economic & political hand vis-a-vis authoritarians. Read my interview in Bonn, Germany's General-Anzeiger, from @aia-nrw.bsky.social www.aia-nrw.org/en/germany-m...

AIA Fellow @jcaustin.bsky.social brought together leaders from the US, Canada, UK & Europe to explore university-linked innovation ecosystems. Beyond Silicon Valley: regional hubs thrive through cross-border collaboration. Thanks to all participants! 🔗https://www.aia-nrw.org/BigTechChains

Catch our important new work detailing how both the US & Germany have seen their politics upended, and what both countries' leaders must do to right the ship. My new paper just out from @aia-nrw.bsky.social & @dgap.org @dpzberlin.bsky.social colleagues. www.aia-nrw.org/de/publikati...